Thread: (BushMan) Attorney General Thanks La Raza Militants

Talk about image and sucking up!

The president's new man in the Attorney General's Office is primed to support LaRaza to the max.

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Attorney General Thanks La Raza Militants
by William F. Jasper
March 22, 2005

Alberto R. Gonzales, President Bush’s newly confirmed replacement for John Ashcroft as U.S. attorney general, was partying with some comrades on March 8. "I … have this organization to thank for support of my nomination for attorney general," Gonzales said in his address at an awards ceremony of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), a militant subversive organization with which he has been affiliated for many years.

The NCLR, more commonly known as La Raza (“The Race,� meaning those of Mexican descent), credits Gonzales, a former Texas Supreme Court judge, with moving George W. Bush into the “progressive� line on key issues. “Many people were not aware of Judge Gonzales’ long history with our affiliates in Texas, and moving then-Governor Bush to the right posture, from our perspective on key civil rights issues, like anti-English only requirements, like anti-immigrant ballot initiatives, bilingual education and affirmative action,� Cecilia Muñoz, vice president for policy at La Raza, told The Washington Post.

“Although La Raza supported Gonzales’s appointment as attorney general, last night’s ceremony marked a first, highly public step in the group’s effort to alter its image as a left-leaning organization,� the Post noted in a March 9 report on the banquet. The group does not intend to change its left-wing policies, just its left-wing image. La Raza president Janet Murguia told the Post that this perceived move to the center would “gain more access to the White House.�

A 1970 report compiled by the California Senate Factfinding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities disclosed that the Southwest Council of La Raza Unida (the direct ancestor of La Raza) was created in 1968 with a $630,000 Ford Foundation grant and had received a subsequent Ford grant of $1,300,000. The organization’s president at the time, Maclovio Barraza, was an identified member of the Communist Party. Noted the report: “The operation of this large and well-financed private concern, with a Communist at its head, obviously exerts a powerful influence on the Mexican-American minority throughout its domain including the [paramilitary] Brown Berets.�

Redgirl1 this is a front pager.

New image?

You know, in the old days what they wanted was an independent state in Southwestern United States. There opinion, as expressed by their leaders, was that the Gringo would die if we did not allow that to happen.

Do a post card please, and Vote on March 24 in the Tancredo thread.

Right you were Charles.

I apologize for posting my articles early, put i'm taking a trip tomorrow morning, and wouldn't be able to post any at all if I didn't do it this way.

Here's the link! http://www.alipac.us/article-289--0-0.html

Thanks and
Be safe.